Cass

“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.”
― Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse

“But no matter who stays
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Lass, you've the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red